Tell Me One True Thing

<p>My poetry collection, Tell Me One True Thing, tracks my development as a poet alongside my changing roles as daughter, mother, wife, and sister, the transformation of which was most profoundly affected by my mother's death from lung cancer in 2013. These poems loosely track the development of my role in the family from relative autonomy to primary support and caregiver--essentially I find I have taken the place of my mother. After her death, I found that I did not know her well. In some sense, these poems attempt to recover lost memories. In the process, my collection explores the many invisible roles women serve in a culture dominated by the economically remunerated roles of men. These roles are often invisible, and they complicate women's connections with place and their ability to achieve success as it is defined by others. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English and Theatre

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2018

Author dc:creator

• Kent-Drury, Roxanne

• poetry

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2018 Roxanne Kent-Drury

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/571

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1569